Strategic Finance, Compute
OpenAIAbout the Team
The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.
About the Role
Compute is a key lever for OpenAI and AI progress. We are seeking a Strategic Finance Compute Lead to provide finance leadership for our compute and infrastructure spend and play a significant role in shaping our long-term compute strategy. You will play a critical role developing financial models for all areas of compute, analyzing spend patterns, and providing critical insights to optimize and plan for our future compute needs. This role will be a key partner to our scaling and supercomputing engineering teams providing financial expertise and guidance to optimize our capacity investments and drive strategic decision-making, while collaborating with other members of the finance organization to align our compute strategy with broader financial considerations.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Own and develop financial models across different elements of compute (GPUs, CPUs, storage and networking)
Lead strategic financial analysis for long-term capacity initiatives, working closely with scaling and supercomputing engineering teams
Maintain deep expertise on compute contract terms, pricing structures and optimization opportunities
Serve as a partner to FP&A and strategic finance teams, aligning compute and infrastructure with broader financial and business strategies
Create high-quality Exec and Board-facing presentations
Stay abreast of market trends and competitive dynamics to inform and improve our infrastructure strategy
You might thrive in this role if you have:
5+ years of experience across strategic finance, private/growth equity, investment banking, strategy & operations, and/or business development, with 3+ years of finance operating experience at a high-growth technology company
Technical undergraduate degree (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, Electri